The Candy Capital of America
The history of candy in Chicago is long, sweet and full of amazing stories! Some of the largest confectionary manufactures were based in Chicago and countless iconic candies were created there. Although, Chicago was't always the Candy Capital of America, it took hard work, innovation and a lot of luck to achieve that title.
In this documentary we look at the very beginnings of candy making in Chicago, right up to the large mergers and acquisitions of the 20th and 21st century and the current confectionary trends.
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George W. Bush announced the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza at the United Nations General Assembly on September 14, 2005, placing the US under UN and WHO law in the event of a pandemic emergency.
Earlier that year, in April, 2005, Barack Obama introduced the first comprehensive bill to deal with the bird flu threat, the Avian act. According to reports, Obama made significant investments in biotech companies involved in the development of bird and swine flu.
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February 22, 2005
Less than two months after ascending to the United States Senate, Barack Obama bought more than $50,000 worth of stock in two speculative companies whose major investors included some of his biggest political donors.
One of the companies was a biotech concern that was starting to develop a drug to treat avian flu. In March 2005, two weeks after buying about $5,000 of its shares, Mr. Obama took the lead in a legislative push for more federal spending to battle the disease.
But he put $50,000 to $100,000 into an account at UBS, which his aides say was recommended to him by a wealthy friend, George W. Haywood, who was also a major investor in both Skyterra and AVI BioPharma, public securities filings show.
Within two weeks of his purchase of the biotech stock that Feb. 22, Mr. Obama initiated what he has called one of my top priorities since arriving in the Senate, a push to increase federal financing to fight avian flu.
His first step came on March 4, 2005, when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved his request for $25 million to help contain the disease in Asia; the full Senate later approved that measure. And in April 2005, he introduced a bill calling for more research on avian flu drugs and urging the government to increase its stockpiles of antiviral medicines.
Mr. Obama repeated this call in a letter that Aug. 9 to Michael O. Levitt, the health and human services secretary. And in September 2005, Mr. Obama and Senator Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, succeeded in amending another bill to provide $3.8 billion for battling the flu.
Meanwhile, the drug company in which he invested, AVI BioPharma, had been working to develop its own medicine to treat avian flu victims. In a conference call with Wall Street analysts on March 8, 2005, the companys chairman, Denis R. Burger, said the firm was aggressively going forward with its avian flu research and hoped to work with federal agencies on it.
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Senator Obama introduces the AVIAN Act (S. 969). Senator Obama introduces the first comprehensive bill to address the threat of an avian influenza pandemic.
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June 6, 2005
Grounding a Pandemic
By BARACK OBAMA and RICHARD LUGAR
It is essential for the international community, led by the United States, to take decisive action to prevent a pandemic.
So what should we do? Recently, the World Health Organization called for more money and attention to be devoted to effective preventive action, appealing for $100 million.
Accelerating research into avian flu vaccines and antiviral drugs.
Barack Obama, Democrat of Illinois, is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Richard Lugar, Republican of Indiana, is its chairman.
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In Loving Memory Of Mrs. Virginia Holloway Turner
Mrs. Virginia Turner, age 90, a former resident of 178 County Road 559, Woodland, currently residing at Lineville Health Care and Rehab Center in Lineville, passed away on Friday morning, June 10, 2011 at Lineville Health Care and Rehab Center, 88073 Highway 9, Lineville, Alabama 36266.
Public Visiting and viewing hours for the late Mrs. Turner will be observed on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, between the hours of 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM.
Mrs. Turner will be in state at Union Chapel United Methodist Church one hour prior to the funeral services.
Funeral Services for Mrs. Turner will be held at 11:00 AM on Thursday, June 16, 2011 at Union Chapel United Methodist Church, 744 Woodland Ave Northwest in Wedowee, with the Reverend William Crawford, Brother Henry Nelson and Reverend Randall Nunn, officiating. Burial will follow in the adjoining Cemetery at Union Chapel United Methodist Church in Wedowee.
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Miss Virginia Holloway was born in Wedowee, Randolph County, Alabama on November 27, 1920 to the parentage of the late Elsie and Ruby (Boykin) Holloway.
Virginia was raised in a God-fearing home, where they attended Union Chapel United Methodist Church. Virginia joined the church at an early age, and remained a member throughout life. During her productive years, she was a very active member of Union Chapel.
Virginia also was an active member of the Order Of Eastern Star. She was a community person, and enjoyed quilting, cooking, being with family and friends, and loved reading the bible and other books.
On March 1, 1936, she united in marriage with the late Charlie Pate Turner. Their union gave rise to eight loving children: four sons: James, Marvin, David and Harold; and four daughters: Mae Ola, Queen Ethel, Naomi and Lavern. During her active years, she worked as a seamstress at Fashion Star Sewing Factory.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Charlie Pate Turner, and two sons, David Turner and Harold Turner; and two daughter, Naomi Smith and Lavern Dotson.
Virginia departed this life on Friday, June 10, 2011 at Lineville Health Care and Rehab Center in Lineville.
She leaves to celebrate her 90 years of life, love and God's blessings, two (2) sons: James Turner (Sonya) of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Marvin Turner of Woodland, Alabama; two (2) daughters: Mae Ola Dale of Lithonia, Georgia and Queen Ethel Wright (David) of Wedowee, Alabama; one (1) brother, Elsie Holloway, Jr., of Chicago, Illinois; two (2) sisters, Lurline Ware and Betty Hammond of Lakeland, Florida; twenty- two (22) grandchildren; thirty-nine (39) great grandchildren; four (4) great-great grandchildren and finally a host of other loving relatives and friends.
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China's First-around-the World Flight Lands on 15th Stop in Washington D. C.
A Chinese pilot and his crew who are on a flight across the globe arrived at their 15th stop in Washington D.C., the United States, on Saturday, receiving warm welcome from local Chinese people.
As the first around-the-world flight from China, the single-engine turboprop TMB700 aircraft landed at Manassas International Airport on Saturday afternoon after crossing over Siberia, Bering strait and the whole U.S. continent, marking the completion of 40 percent of the trip.
Pilot Zhang Bo, who is in his fifties, said making Chinese people's first around-the-globe is the motivation behind his endeavor.
During the more than 100 years since the Wright brothers invented airplane, there have been more than 300 around-the-world flights in the world, but none of them took China as a starting point and destination. And no Chinese has finished an around-the-globe flight, said Zhang Bo.
The 58-day journey, which started from Beijing on Aug 7, will cover 40,000 kilometers and over 20 countries including Russia, the United States, Canada, Iceland and Britain.
As an aviation enthusiast, Zhang learned to fly while studying for his doctor's degree at the University of Illinois. He now has over 600 hours' flying experience.
I have over 600 hours' flying experience. In retrospect, I feel a little bit scared. If you let me fly one more time, I may not have that courage, said Zhang.
Zhang said that there will be around 50 stops, and will follow part of the Ancient Silk Road trade route.
Statistics show that 70 percent of the world's private jets are in the United States, where the industrial chain and law system are complete. In 2016, the Chinese government issued guidelines to further develop the general aviation industry. Zhang Bo believed that with the concerted efforts of the country, market, technology and individuals, China's general aviation industry will achieve rapid development.
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Katherine Dunham ♕ Transformation From 01 To 96 YEARS OLD
Katherine Mary Dunham was an American dancer, choreographer, author, educator, and social activist. Dunham had one of the most successful dance careers in American and European theater of the 20th century, and directed her own dance company for many years. Wikipedia
Born: June 22, 1909, Glen Ellyn, Illinois, United States
Died: May 21, 2006, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States
Awards: Kennedy Center Honors
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Alien UFO Surgery Art Bell Dr Roger K Lier Implants alien Abduction
Let's talk Aline UFO SURGERY with Art Bell and Dr. Roger K Lier and what about Alien Implants, Alien Abductions and MORE.
This is his Art Bell Dark Matter Files with the late great Dr. Roger K Leir Dr. Roger K. Leir was an American podiatric expert and ufologist best known as an analyst of insisted untouchable supplements. Leir made books, for instance, The Aliens and the Scalpel, and appeared on changed radio and TV programs, including, ensuring he had discovered confirmation of non-terrestrial experimentation on man.
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Leir formed The Aliens and the Scalpel in 1999, depicting his implant surgery. His next book, Casebook: Alien Implants and Alien abductions, was dispersed in 2000. He began appearing on changed radio and TV programs and talked at UFO social affairs. In 2001, an essayist heading off to his office in Ventura, California reported that it contained UFO magazines and a rack stacked with bug-took a gander at pariah dolls. In 2003 he made an excursion to Varginha, Brazil to investigate the charged crash of a pariah carry, and conveyed a book in 2005 titled UFO Crash in Brazil.
His enthusiasm for extraterrestrial-related wonders developed in his initial youth. His want to discover answers identified with this mysterious subject generated a journey enduring about twenty years. Dr. Leir, a Podiatric Surgeon, kept up a private practice in Ventura County, California for over forty years. He ended up entranced with asserted outsider embeds subsequent to expelling a remote question from a patient's foot in 1995. He shaped a non-benefit association called An and S Research Inc. to explore these bizarre items. He and his surgical group performed fifteen surgeries on claimed alien abductees, bringing about the expulsion of sixteen articles they accept are outsider inserts.
Dr. Leir additionally investigated UFO cases, including the 1996 Varginha, Brazil case in which an extraterrestrial was purportedly observed by various witnesses and caught by the military, and the 2007-2009 UFO sightings in Kumburgaz, Turkey. He additionally created a few UFO/ET-related books.
A few witnesses introduced declaration to a board of previous Congress individuals at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on a 2013 occasion titled the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure. Dr. Leir was among the witnesses.
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Chicago: CIBC Theatre
CIBC Theatre is located at 18 West Monroe Street in the Loop area of downtown Chicago.
The theater opened in 1906 as the Majestic Theatre, named for The Majestic Building in which it is housed. The Majestic was a popular vaudeville theater offering approximately 12 to 15 vaudeville acts running from 1:30 pm to 10:30 pm, six days-per-week. By the 1920s the theater had become part of the Orpheum Circuit and presented many famous vaudeville headliners including Al Jolson, Eddie Foy, Harry Houdini, Lily Langtry, and Fanny Brice.
In 1932, the theater closed during the Great Depression. In 1945, the Shubert Organization purchased the venue, remodeled, and reopened it as the Sam Shubert Theatre. The Nederlander Organization purchased the building in 1991, however, Chicago Public Schools owned the land until 1997 when Nederlander also purchased it. Between January 2005 and May 2006, the theater underwent restoration and a name change to the LaSalle Bank Theatre and floors 4-21 of the adjoining office building were converted to the Hampton Inn Majestic Hotel. The hotel & theatre share the building, with the theatre on floors 1-6 & the hotel on floors 4-21.
As the first theater built in Chicago after the Iroquois Theatre fire, the Majestic Theatre was specially cited for its fire safety. This theater was also constructed to bring a more elegant audience into the vaudeville circuit. The architects, Edmund R. Krause and the Rapp Brothers (George and Cornelius), thought that by using decadent colors and textures they could attract a more upper-class crowd than traditionally attended vaudeville. The house of the theater also has two prosceniums. These were constructed to racially segregate the audience, as they prevent patrons on the ground level from seeing the patrons on upper levels. Also, by some sources, this theater was once Chicago's tallest building.
During the 2005–2006 restoration, elevators were finally installed within the theater. Previously, patrons had to exit the theater and use the elevators in the office building to reach the balcony. As part of the general revamp of the theater, paint chips were analyzed and the theater was repainted in what is believed to be the original color scheme. Most of the original fixtures, as well as the mosaic floor installed in the lobby when the theater opened in 1906, remain. Restorers also discovered a hidden archway in the lobby concession space during their work. This elaborately decorated arch had been walled-over years ago and was forgotten until construction began. The theater now holds 1,800 seats.
This theater has been home to many pre-Broadway tours and world premieres. Michael Crawford played a one-night benefit concert for the newly restored theater's opening night May 24, 2006. Martin Short performed in his sketch comedy satire Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me for two weeks in July 2006. High School Musical premiered in July 2007 during its pre-Broadway tour. Jersey Boys began a 28-month run at the theater in October 2007, followed by the pre-Broadway premiere of Cyndi Lauper's Kinky Boots in October and November 2012. The theater hosted a sit-down production of The Book of Mormon which officially opened on December 19, 2012, and played through October 6, 2013. In December 2015, it began the premiere engagement of a new musical Gotta Dance directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell and starring Georgia Engel, Stefanie Powers, Lillias White and Andre DeShields. The production played through January 17, 2016. The theater is hosting a resident production of Hamilton that started September 27, 2016.
As the Shubert Theater, the venue hosted the premiere of The Goodbye Girl in 1993 prior to its Broadway run. The show was an adaption by Neil Simon of his screenplay of the same name with music by Marvin Hamlisch and lyrics by David Zippel and starred Bernadette Peters and Martin Short. In July 1995, the stage adaption of Victor/Victoria premiered starring Julie Andrews, Tony Roberts and Michael Nouri. It ran until September when it moved to New York. In December 2001, John Lithgow starred in Sweet Smell of Success. Movin' Out, based on the songs of Billy Joel and conceived, choreographed and directed by Twyla Tharp, premiered in June 2002. The final production before renovation was Monty Python's Spamalot which began its pre-Broadway run in December 2004. The production was directed by Tony and Academy Award-winner Mike Nichols and starred David Hyde Pierce, Tim Curry and Hank Azaria.
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10 Most Influential Black Women!
10 Most Influential Black Women! From members of the civil rights movement to leaders in politics and law…stay tuned to number 1 to find out about the 10 most amazing black women you may have never heard of!
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Number 10: Diane Nash.
At one point in her life, Diane Nash was not forced to face the segregation that was gripping the United States at the time of her birth. She was born in 1938, and lived in Chicago, Illinois, which is legendary for its integration and multiculturalism (which is even a mandatory course in certain colleges, like DePaul University). The north had always been further advanced than the south in that regard, so Nash didn't have to witness it.
That is…until she went to Fisk University in Tennessee, and it was there that racism was on full display. Segregated bathrooms, lunch areas, and worse, were all around her. And one look at it gave her life an about face, because not long after experiencing this, she became a key member of the Civil Rights movement.
She helped orchestrate sit-ins that helped integrate lunch rooms, she helped fight for desegregated highways, and helped bring the Selma Voting Rights to form, which allowed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to be made.
Diane Nash may not have been as big as Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr., but she had a big part to play in the history of the country.
Number 9: Fannie Lou Hamer.
Another key member in helping African Americans get voting rights was Fannie Lou Hamer. But she did it in one of the most charged places there was in the United States at the time: MIssissippi. She (along with Diane Nash) was on the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which helped push the rights of black voters. And she helped lead this even when people would threaten or even attack any black person who dared tried to vote. She never backed down.
Oh, but her time in the spotlight was far from done, in fact, she was just getting started. Fannie Lou Hamer had the voice and passion to bring people to listen to her, and at the Democratic National Convention of 1964, she went and criticized the whole place because the entire Mississippi delegation was white. This act was even televised, so everyone got to hear her words and her passion. But she still wasn't done there.
Because she was doing such a great job that President Lyndon B. Johnson called an emergency press conference just to get her off the air. That's right, they needed the President to come forward to stop her. That's impressive in any country.
Number 8: Althea Gibson.
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When you think about Tennis, there are a few names that come to mind. When you think of Women's Tennis, you likely think of Venus and Serena Williams, who were, and are, two of the most dominant female Tennis stars the world has ever seen. But, without a women named Althea Gibson, that may not have happened.
Why's that? Althea Gibson was the first African-American woman to be allowed to play in a major Tennis tournament. In this case, Wimbledon. In many ways, she was the Jackie Robinson of Tennis, helping break down barriers. And make no mistake, she was a champion too. She won 11 titles during her 8-year career, and made 19 finals. She won the French Open, Wimbledon twice, the US Nationals twice, and even won as a double competitor.
Many black women followed in her footsteps, and that led to the arrival of the Williams sisters who have dominated in the modern era. And for all of her victories and her impact on the sport, Althea Gibson was given the honor of being put into the Tennis Hall of Fame in the Class of 1971.
Number 7: Ella Baker.
When you think about the Civil Rights Movement, you no doubt picture many of the faces of the movement, as you should. But, there were hundreds, if not thousands working together behind the scenes to try and achieve this dream of a unified nation. And one of the people behind the scenes was Ella Baker…a woman who spent 50 years of her life to trying to bring equality to all. Including helping to organize events for some of the faces of the movement, such as: Thurgood Marshall and Martin Lither King Jr., to name a few.
Not only was she an organizer, she was a mentor, she helped bring up people in the movement like Diane Nash, Bob Moses, and Rosa Parks, people who were vital to changing how the country worked. If it wasn't for Baker, many of them wouldn't be the names that you know now.
She didn't stop there, though, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee had her as, not only an advisor, but as a key strategist to get things done, because they knew she was smart enough and crafty enough to do it.
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Hank Paulson, 74th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury: It’s the People Skills that Matter
Getting anything done requires working with others. It’s all about interpersonal relationships, shared Henry Hank Paulson, 74th Secretary of the Treasury and Founder & Chairman, Paulson Institute. During his View From The Top talk on Thursday, October 27, 2016, Paulson shared life and career advice with Stanford GSB students as well as discussed his experience leading during the financial crisis. Read more insights on Twitter: stanford.io/2dQIvNK
Obama Buddies FOBOs
An Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) report from September 2004 found that, during Johnson's tenure as CEO, Fannie Mae had improperly deferred $200 million in expenses. This enabled top executives, including Johnson and his successor, Franklin Raines, to receive substantial bonuses in 1998. A 2006 OFHEO report found that Fannie Mae had substantially under-reported Johnson's compensation. Originally reported as $6-7 million, Johnson actually received approximately $21 million. He also received loans directly from Angelo Mozilo, the CEO of Countrywide Financial, a company implicated in the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.
Tony Rezko
Rezko was indicted along with businessman Stuart Levine on charges of wire fraud, bribery, money laundering, and attempted extortion as a result of a federal investigation known as Operation Board Games. An arrest warrant was issued in Las Vegas for passing bad checks in two casinos and failing to pay $450,000 in gambling debts that were accrued between March and July of 2006. Another casino had also filed a civil complaint for a total of $331,000 in 2006 and was given a judgment of default in 2007.
Rezko is also under indictment, along with a business associate, for wire fraud related to the alleged sale of his pizza business to a straw buyer at an inflated price in order to obtain millions of dollars in loans from GE Capital.
Rezko threw an early fundraiser for Obama, was instrumental in providing Obama with seed money for his U.S. Senate race. Obama has since identified over $250,000 in campaign contributions to various Obama campaigns as coming from Rezko or close associates, and has claimed to have donated almost two thirds of that amount to unspecified nonprofit groups.
In 2005 Obama purchased a new home in the Kenwood District of Chicago for $1.65 million (which was $300,000 below the asking) on the same day that Rezko's wife, Rita Rezko, purchased the adjoining empty lot from the same sellers for the full asking price.
In June 2007, the Sun-Times published a story about letters Obama had written in 1997 to city and state officials in support of a low-income senior citizen development project headed by Rezko and partner Allison Davis. The project received more than $14 million in taxpayer funds, including $885,000 in development fees for Rezko and Davis.
William Ayers: In 1970 he went underground with several associates after the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, in which Weatherman member Ted Gold, Ayers' close friend Terry Robbins, and Ayers' girlfriend, Diana Oughton, were killed when a nail bomb (an anti-personnel device) they were assembling exploded. Ayers participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the United States Capitol building in 1971, and The Pentagon in 1972, as he noted in his 2001 book, Fugitive Days. Because of a water leak caused by the Pentagon bombing, aerial bombardments during the Vietnam War had to be halted for several days. Ayers writes: Although the bomb that rocked the Pentagon was itsy-bitsy - weighing close to two pounds - it caused 'tens of thousands of dollars' of damage. The operation cost under $500, and no one was killed or even hurt.
Bill Ayers and Barack Obama have been linked during their time in the city of Chicago, where they lived three blocks apart and led charges for education reform in the state of Illinois. The two met at a luncheon meeting about school reform in a Chicago skyscraper. Obama was then named to the Chicago Annenberg Project board to oversee the distribution of grants in Chicago. Later in 1995, Ayers hosted in his home a coffee for Mr. Obama's first run for office. The two served together on a community anti-poverty group, the Woods Fund of Chicago, between 2000 and 2002, during which time the board met twelve times. Ayers also contributed $200 to Obama's re-election fund to the Illinois State Senate in April 2001. Ayers has repeatedly avowed that he has no regrets and that we didn't do enough to stop the Viet Nam war.
Rev. Wright - officated Obamas wedding, baptised his kids, gave him spiritual guidence yet Obama seems to have missed the racial hatred of white sermons until he was forced to 'notice'.